Telehostia. Historia de una oblea bien dada
2016 · 4m · España
Directed by Sergi Páez
Genres: action, comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Unfairly fired from his job, José sets out to kick his former boss's backside in a classic martial-arts revenge plot stuffed with 1980s clichés.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A four-minute Spanish revenge flick that weaponizes 80s action tropes so gleefully, so committed to the bit, that it loops back around and becomes something genuinely subversive—the cliché becomes the substance, and that's where the real joke lives.
Páez demonstrates formal precision in his compression of a full genre arc into four minutes, with editing that respects the rhythms of classic martial-arts cinema even as the satire undercuts it; a clever formal essay masquerading as a gag.
The entire thing hinges on a single production decision—committing fully to earnest 80s aesthetic and pacing rather than winking at it—and that choice of restraint over irony is what elevates what could've been a throwaway sketch into something that actually lands.